First Sino-Japanese War

The most devastating use of biological warfare agents happened during World War II, when the Japanese Imperial Army unleashed plague, cholera, typhoid, and other diseases against Chinese civilians, killing an estimated 300,000 (“The Biological Weapons Threat”). In the movie, V for Vendetta, England is set during in a dystopian future where a totalitarian government has been established. The film stars Hugo Weaving, who plays a freedom fighter named V, and Natalie Portman, who plays Evey, a young…

History states that Japan and China have been at war for decades. Throughout the years, the acts of violence have been gradually increasing. In 1937, the Japanese began a war that left more than 300,000 Chinese men, women, and children dead. The atrocities committed were just the beginning to a year of genocide. The Rape of Nanking will go down in history as one of the most brutal acts of bloodshed throughout all of China. During the nineteenth century, a war was fought between the Qing Dynasty…

During World War II, Japan committed countless crimes against the civilians of the nations they occupied, from the Nanjing Massacre to the issue of comfort women were few of the most major crimes committed by the Imperial Japanese Army. The Nanjing Massacre involved the mass murder of 300,000 people and the rape of around 20,000 women. During this duration of time, the comfort women were also introduced, which involved the forced prostitution of Asian women from the Philippines, Korea and China…

not only the japanese that became enriched with the best western knowledge of that time, but they also contributed their knowledge of moxibustion and shared much about their use of acupuncture, and even shared four drawing of acupuncture points, which Willem ten Rhijne brought back with him to Europe (Cook 2004). The notes Willem ten Rhijne created, and the works from the Japanese he took back to Europe were published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Cook showed that the Japanese had an…

of Japanese history is Japan said that the sex slaves known as comfort women were prostitutes and did the things of their own free will.(Wingfield-Hayes). Those forced labour workers even came out and said they were slaves, but Japan accused them of lying. China and Korea have not been happy with all these changes. Japan has many excuses for leaving these parts of history out of Japanese…

The Battle of Myitkyina During World War II, a major battle took place between the Japanese and American forces which would come to be known as the Battle of Myitkyina. This battle lasted from March 15, 1944 to August 3, 1944 and took place mainly on the Ava Bridge located in the Northern Burma Region. The Battle of Myitkyina resulted in the Myitkyina Airfield being seized which was the last remaining stronghold controlled by the Japanese forces. This battle would prove to be a decisive…

had conflict over interests in Manchuria and the Korean peninsula, which is called Russo-Japanese War. At that era, Russian government was an imperial power and had many rebelling against the leader Czar Alexander II. After the incident, Czar Nicholas II obtained the sovereignty of Russia. However, because of too much internal revolution in Russia, they had to struggle with unstabilized government during the war. However, the Russians had supremely confident to win small island country. Unlike…

matter to any extraordinary degree.The deniers of the Nanking Massacre regularly start by exhibiting Japan as having "no expectation of beginning the war against China, the Sino-Japanese War.” They even say that the Japanese government offered a peace proposition in August of 1937. Their story is that the war was extended to Shanghai, as "the Japanese Army kept on torment from the adversary suppression. Eventually, a large portion of the Chinese Army pulled back from Shanghai and moved to…

of Nanjing was depicted as: a battle, a massacre, rape and an invasion. Through research, the answer that has arose is that it should be depicted as a massacre, it’s school appropriate and follows the facts. “Over a period of six weeks, Imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people–including both soldiers and civilians–in the Chinese city of Nanjing” (history.com) The battle of Nanjing is the literal meaning of the word massacre. (mas·sa·cre-ˈmasəkər /noun an…

The invasion of Shanghai lead to the Nanjing Massacre, which was also known as Nanking Massacre, and began in the end of 1937. This massacre involved the Chinese and the Japanese. Japanese forces killed around 300,000 Chinese people. The Japanese cruelty was incomparable, There were numerous ways that the Japanese took advantage of the Nanjing citizens. One example is how a large number of girls and women were raped, which lead to another name for the Nanjing Massacre, “Rape of Nanjing”.…